In an exciting fusion of science and creativity, marine biologists have identified a new deep-sea coral species named Iridogorgia chewbacca. Native to the tropical western Pacific Ocean, this coral ...

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

Mashable recently visited DEEP's campus — the Bristol-based company building deep sea habitats with the mission to get people to live under water by the end of this decade. We'll take you underwater ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Measuring the temperature on the seafloor: In the newly discovered hydrothermal field, hot liquid and cold gas bubble up from the sediment just a few centimetres apart. Off the coast of Papua New ...

Vulnerable deep-sea habitats will be mapped with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a study made possible by a £2m investment. The Deep Vision project - run by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...

The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...